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EP. REVIEW: Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-

In rehearsals, when he sings to an empty auditorium, he is singing only for Ophelia, allowing his songs to reach new heights. But when facing a live crowd, he sings to them, and the magic is lost.

It's also implied that Antonio's ability to overwrite Ophelia was given to him by Yugo—and is thus from the future as well.

If this turns out to be true, and assuming that the opposition from the future comes just in response to Matsumoto and Vivy messing with the timeline, then what made Ophelia commit suicide in the original unaltered timeline?

That's a fantastic question. The way I see it, it is either A) a completely ignored plothole or B) a hint that this isn't the second timeline but the third. (I.e., that there was a timeline before Matsumoto's where the robot apocalypse didn't happen but someone/something time-traveled to make it happen--causing the creation of Matsumoto's timeline.)

After all, while Ophelia was the first to commit suicide, it was said that many more AI started to do the same afterwards--which, to me, implies the meddling of some sort of outside force. (Unless we're supposed to assume that all the AI that killed themselves were taken over by their partner AIs?)

• I've seen some confusion in the comments about Matsumoto's plan for completing his mission. Basically, he is trying to walk a knife's edge. As knowing the future is a huge boon, he is trying to stop the robot apocalypse while changing as little as possible when compared to his original timeline. To keep his interference to a minimum, he has identified several key events that directly lead to the robot apocalypse. He hopes that by changing only these events (and going into hibernation between them), he can prevent the robot apocalypse while keeping the timelines similar. Of course, as we have seen, the plan isn't foolproof. Even changing just one of these events can divert the timeline in major and unexpected ways.

Why is the scientist's robo-wife in robot-island dead? Why the scientist did not copy his wife memories before she became the island's brain? The tech was there because he wanted at the end to transfer the island's brain data into the robot copy he made of his wife.

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Oh, look! It's the "snake speech" again!

A bit of off-topic here, because I'm been complaining about how much this anime is unsatisfactory. There's a chinese animation airing right now called "Link Click". I started watching yesterday and every single one of it's five episodes gave me all that I wanted to see in the whole of Vivy now.
There's also time travel involved in that story but the rules and mechanics are much simpler, the characters just need to try to NOT change anything. This makes the stakes higher because every minute in the past is a huge temptation to do things differently. But even excluding the time travel each individual story stands on it's own and managed to hit me hard. Highly recommended for anyone watching Vivy.

Back to Vivy, here's my opinion of what happened.
Hearing Vivy's composition made the IA realize that they can "create".

I'm probably wrong, since last episode revealed the existence of a third party interfering with the events. It'll be a shame if everything is resolved in the end with the revelation of the "true villain".

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Back to Vivy, here's my opinion of what happened. Hearing Vivy's composition made the IA realize that they can "create". I'm probably wrong, since last episode revealed the existence of a third party interfering with the events. It'll be a shame if everything is resolved in the end with the revelation of the "true villain".

I think you're right but I don't think that's the whole story. Vivy's song seems to have been the start of the current timeline's roboapocaplyse but in the first timeline (timeline 0) I’m guessing Vivy was just another AI that was turned/converted BY the song’s revelation. In the first episode Vivy had some dirt on her(from just waking up the bombed museum?) and she was announcing her ‘mission’ before exiting. Now it could just be me looking too hard but her tone of voice felt ‘lifeless’ unlike how she sounded in later volumes. That said it does beg the question of how much is different and how much is the same? As soon as I saw the kid getting older I noticed the resemblance to Matsumoto(the human) so I’m wondering what the original Vivy was like in the first timeline? Presumably she lacked the same sense of ‘humanity’ that she’s nurtured from the singularity project yet I suppose she was still able to leave a lasting impression on Matsumoto, enough for him to entrust with the mission of preventing the roboapocaplyse.
I’m guessing the ‘culprit’ for lack of a better term is going to be the latest model in Diva’s production line. Perhaps an AI that was ‘too’ advanced in that it gained independence (the ability to create that inciting song) before it learned the value of life (something Vivy spent 100 developing by growing and living alongside humans and AI).

If it's available in English subtitles I'll give it a try, I don't think I've ever watched a Chinese animation that wasn't derived from Nezha.

Since the AI virus seems to be a song, I wouldn't be surprised if Vivy's “Singularity Project” song is going to prove to be the anti-virus—especially when you remember the opening scene of the entire series.

Since the AI virus seems to be a song, I wouldn't be surprised if Vivy's “Singularity Project” song is going to prove to be the anti-virus—especially when you remember the opening scene of the entire series.